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Legionnaires’ disease is an acute infectious disease caused by Legionella pneumophila (LP). It is mainly a lung infection, with complications involving extrapulmonary multiple systems. Since the first prevalence of LP infection was reported in the United States in 1976, LP infection has been continually reported for many times worldwide. LP-induced Legionella pneumonia and Pontiac fever are known as Legionnaires’ disease, which can have sporadic prevalence or epidemic outbreak.
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Jia, C., Zhao, D., Yu, J. (2015). Legionnaires’ Disease. In: Li, H. (eds) Radiology of Infectious Diseases: Volume 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9876-1_12
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